In last week’s episode, Fessy threw himself into elimination all with the goal of stealing Leroy’s partner, Kaycee, who is part of the Big Brother alliance. Fessy and Kaycee, who are both fuckboys, believed that if they could only get to each other they could kill it at the final and dethrone the hardened veterans.
But the thing about The Challenge is that it comes at you hard and fast. On the first day of the final, Fessy’s partnership with Kaycee broke down almost immediately as he started yelling at her and criticizing her for not sprinting through rocky terrain during a five-mile run. As Kaycee attempted to match pace with her partner, she slipped on a rock and went down screaming, in tears, telling a medic that her knee had popped out of place. While his partner was writhing on the ground in pain, in the middle of a hurricane, Fessy sat on a rock and reflected on how this slow down would affect him.
Kaycee got up and was able to hobble to the next checkpoint, which was an eating challenge. The challengers had to drink a pint of blood and eat sheep skull, ram testicles, and other innards in order to complete that leg of the race. Still in tears from her fall, Kaycee immediately started chugging blood in an effort to make up for the time she’d lost on the run while her partner just stared at the food.
By the end of the episode, Fessy had not touched a single testicle or taken even a sip from the blood cup. Instead of trying to eat the animal parts, Fessy did what I call “Quitter’s Math.” He looked around, saw that every team was ahead of him, and realized there was a 50/50 chance his partner would not be physically able to run for the rest of the final, which is a timed event. So instead of putting forth the bare minimum effort, Fessy slowly but surely started to convince his partner that quitting was the only option because he no longer had the “motivation” to try and win.
Anyone who watches this show knows that the worst thing a challenger can do is quit. The motto of the show may as well be, “Teej hates quitters,” because every time someone quits, the host TJ Lavin gives them a disappointed dad speech and tells them to get out. So the philosophical question facing viewers right now is, should Fessy have eaten the testicles anyway? If your answer is no, then explain to me using MLA format why you’re wrong and how long you intend to be wrong about this important issue.
